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@BarryD That's the Up Bay!

The Down Bay at Gordon Hill. Trump that!

At the last check, Welwyn and ASHFORD (curve ball surprise!) Drivers are route learning to be able to introduce the Sevenoaks to Welwyn peak hour services in May 2022.

Well, that's an interesting viewpoint, but I have to disagree. So far... we still haven't got a Crossrail/Elizabeth Line connection at Farringdon. I expect it will be very well used when it eventually comes into operation. Based on that, I think there is no chance of reversing the decision to...

Think I'll stick with 2!

Senior Conductors are on ex-Central Trains terms and conditions. They have a booked PNB which during late running they will take, plus the walking time to and from the messroom, and their next service will go out late if necessary. They earn commission for selling tickets. Train Managers have no...

Re: The 8 weeks on 2 weeks off Sundays are inside the working week, and some weeks are 5 days on, and some are 4. The rest days you miss out on when you have 5 working days on in a week, are given back as part of the two weeks off along with annual leave. So the annual leave weeks are actually...

Well, that's an honest piece of writing about the various challenges the bus industry finds itself in at the moment.

Pulled? As in cancelled or withdrawn? Torn up? Or expired? Came to an end? Not renewed? Quite a few here saying it's withdrawn, but I think expired/not renewed is more likely. Is the Spare On Call at Home disagreement the only thing halting a renewal, or is there a list containing other...

Thankyou, I forgot about Chingford who still retain a lot of West Anglia Great Northern conditions.

Is that Drivers or Guards (or both!)? EMR have two grades of Guards: Train Managers on the Intercity trains (former Midland Mainline) are Outside, Committed. Similar to above post, Senior Conductors on local trains (former Central Trains) are Outside, Committed for those who started after a...

There are three types of Sunday working in the railway industry. Outside, Voluntary - Sundays are overtime outside the working week. You can say you are 'not available' to work Sunday overtime with so many (normally 7) days notice to the Roster Clerk. Outside, Committed - Sundays are overtime...

I don't work there, but I posted some info here a while ago, although bear in mind it was a little out of date even at the time. It should give you some idea though. I believe they still have a turn that starts at 02-something in the morning - it must go to Manchester Airport...

@ThunderPumpkin No problem! I said I thought it was 39 weeks until full pay with LU, but it looks like I may have confused that with sick pay - LU is 39 weeks full sick pay. However long training is (which is less than on the mainline) - when you are out on your own, you'd be on full Train Op...

Demolished just before the line opened, I believe. It's as if, the tram route were planned to serve them, but then, after all the hassle and planning, surveys, consultations, and years of dreaming it takes to get a tramway built in this country - housing plans and the state of the towers had...

At LU you go up to full Train Operator rate after so many weeks (something like 39 I think) so even if there are delays in training, your money goes up. I don't know what arrangements are at GA should there be delays in training. At LU, all your years of service will count at the Train...

I suppose one reason why severe weather warnings result in not running trains are events like this - which happened at slow speed proceeding with caution. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glanrhyd_Bridge_collapse

The railway used to say no to laser eye surgery. Now it seems to say no if you are already employed, but if you've already had it done quite a while ago and the effects are known and stable, you have more chance. They don't like potentially paying you for unproductive time off whilst that...

Red Star: I can remember someone I worked with speaking about it. He used to work at a station between Tunbridge Wells and Hastings. Many customers used to come along with a parcel to be delivered to one of the other stations on the line, knowing it would likely be placed on a train pretty soon...

'On loan from...' or 'provided by...' would be better. 'Operated by' just isn't true. You see, they've gone to the trouble of sticking on vinyls saying that, but sticking light blue vinyls over the dark green doors on their original 387s would've gone a fair way to giving a family appearance...